All Chapters of The 18 Billion Wife He Abandoned : Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

Emma sat between her sleeping babies in the early morning light, Franklin's letter trembling in her hands. The envelope had been tucked into her grandfather's desk drawer for months, labeled in his precise handwriting: "For Emmy - When You Face Your Hardest Choice."That choice had arrived unexpecte

"Tell me about the stars again, Grandpa Franklin," five-month-old Charlotte babbled in her own baby language, reaching for the twinkling lights Emma had strung around Franklin's hospital bed at home. Franklin's weathered hand, now so thin the veins stood out like roadmaps, gently caught Charlotte's

Franklin took his last breath at 6:47 AM, just as the morning sun fully illuminated the garden he'd spent forty years tending. Charlotte was sleeping in Emma's arms, and baby Frankie had finally settled against Alek's chest. The monitors stopped their steady beeping, replaced by a silence so profoun

BONUS CHAPTER 3: LEGACY ON ICESt. Paul's Cathedral had never held a more unusual funeral service. At Emma's insistence, Charlotte and baby Frankie were present in the front pew, their soft baby sounds occasionally punctuating the solemnity with reminders of continuing life. Franklin would have appr

Katie's son, now six, looked up seriously from the hockey stick he'd been examining. "Will the new people who live here know about Mr. Franklin?""The house isn't being sold," Emma explained gently. "Walter and the other staff will keep living here, and we'll visit whenever we come back to Boston."